History of Political Ideas (Volume 5)

出版者:University of Missouri Press

作者:Eric Voegelin

页数:264pages

出版时间:September 1998

价格:$42.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780826211941

具体描述

Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the sixteenth century, Religion and the Rise of Modernity resumes the analysis of the "great confusion" introduced in Volume IV of History of Political Ideas. Encompassing a vast range of events ignited by Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, this period is one of controversy, revolution, and partiality.

Despite the era's fragmentation and complexity, Voegelin's insightful analysis clarifies its significance and suggests the lines of change converging at a point in the future: the medieval Christian understanding of a divinely created closed cosmos was being replaced by a distinctly modern form of human consciousness that posits man as the proper origin of meaning in the universe.

Analyzing the most significant features of the great confusion, Voegelin examines a vast range of thought and issues of the age. From the more obvious thinkers to those less frequently studied, this volume features such figures as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, and Giordano Bruno. Devoting a considerable amount of attention to Jean Bodin, Voegelin presents him as a prophet of a new, true religion amid the civilizational disorder of the post-Christian era. Focusing on such traditional themes as monarchy, just war theory, and the philosophy of law, this volume also investigates issues within astrology, cosmology, and mathematics.

Religion and the Rise of Modernity is a valuable work of scholarship not only because of its treatment of individual thinkers and doctrines influential in the sixteenth century and beyond but also because of its close examination of those experiences that formed the modern outlook.

作者简介

About the Author

Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, emigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.

About the Editor

James L. Wiser is Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Political Philosophy: A History of the Search for Order and Political Theory: A Thematic Inquiry.

目录信息

Editor's Introduction I
Part Five. The Great Confusion (continued from Vol.IV)
2. The Great Confusion II: Decisions and Positions 17
§1. Survey of Issues 19
§2. La Boétie 28
§3. The Monarchomachic Trend 39
a. Character of the Trend
b. Salamonius
c. The Absorbtion of the Religious Movements
d. Calvin's Theocracy
e. Knox
f. The Vindiciae
g. Althusius
§4. The Jesuit Thinkers 59
3. The English Commonwealth--Hooker 70
§1. The Beginnings of English Political Thought 70
§2. The Closure of the Commonwealth 74
§3. The Literary Chorus 77
§4. Hooker's Christian Commonwealth 80
§5. Portrait of the Puritan 88
§6. Philosophy of Law 98
4. Interpolity Relations--Vitoria 108
§1. Internationalism 108
§2. The Great Design 111
§3. The Conception of Interstate Law 113
§4. The Distinction between Interstate and Intercivilizational Relations 115
§5. The Just War 117
§6. The Legal Technique of Imperialism 121
a. The Organization of the Argument
b. The Natural Law of Human Intercourse
c. The Propagation of Christianity
d. Civilizational Superiority
e. Conclusion
§7. Vitoria's Personality 128
§8. Later Development of Intercivilizational Relations 131
5. Man in History and Nature 134
§1. The Problem of Modernity 134
§2. Poggio Bracciolini 138
a. Fame
b. Europe and Asia
§3. Louis Le Roy 143
a. Pessimism and Optimism
b. Civilizational Epochs
c. The Rhythms of Nature
d. Eternal Recurrence
§4. Astrology 149
a. Savonarola
b. Melanchthon
c. Rantzau
d. Papal Constitutions
§5. Cosmology 155
a. Copernicus
b. Bodin
aa. Science and Contemplation
bb. Natural Order and Political Order
cc. Certainty and Catharsis
dd. Cosmic Hierarchy and Political Hierarchy
§6. Tycho de Brahe 163
a. Renascent Creation
b. Conservative Misgivings
§7. Mathematics 165
a. Function and Effects of Mathematical Speculation
b. Ontology and Mathematics
§8. Giordano Bruno 168
a. Intellectual Liberation
b. The Substance of the Cosmos
c. The Ecstasy of Speculation
d. The Infinity of the Cosmos
§9. The Idea of the Infinite and Its Application 176
a. The Mathematical Infinite
b. The Infinite in Ontological Speculation
6. Bodin 180
§1. Mediterranean Modernity 181
§2. The Style of Work 184
§3. Bodin's Religion--Biographical Data 186
§4. The Letter to Jean Bautru 188
§5. Preciosa Mors 190
§6. The Program 192
§7. God, Angels, and Men 196
§8. Tolerance--The Heptaplomeres 205
§9. History 219
a. History and Anthropology
b. Individual and Universal History
c. The Spatial Order of History
d. The Temporal Order of History
[§10. Bodin: Variorum] 236
a. Bodin桝 Representative of Mediterranean Civilization
b. Style of Work
c. Religious Attitude
d. The Heptaplomeres 桾oleration
e. Contemplative Realism桾he Aristotelian Problem
f. The Theory of Climates桭rance, the New Omphalos
g. Cosmological Thought
h. Hierarchy桾he Feidh
i. Legal Hierarchy梩he Structure of the Modern State
j. Corollaries
k. Definitions of Sovereignty
l. The Problem of Power
m. the Harmonious Cosmion
n. Ascent to God
Index 253
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